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1877–1966
FRENCH
CRIMINALIST

Edmond Locard had a paramount role in the European and worldwide development of criminalistics , the practice of gathering evidence for scientific examination and crime solving.

Locard was born in 1877 in the city of Lyon, France, about 300 miles southeast of Paris.

In 1902, He obtained his doctoral degree in medicine. At that point, his interest in science pertaining to the law was already clear, as his thesis was entitled "La médecine légale sous le Grand Roy" (Legal Medicine under the Great King).

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After receiving his degree, he became the assistant of French medical doctor Alexandre Lacassagne (1844–1921), often referred to as the father of modern forensic medicine, of the University of Lyon. Lacassagne became Locard's mentor.

A few years later, Locard decided to study the law, and in 1907, he passed the bar examination. Both a medical doctor and an attorney with a great interest for the study of scienc